Usually means: Organs involved in blood filtration.
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  1. spleens: Merriam-Webster
  2. spleens: Collins English Dictionary
  3. spleens: Vocabulary.com
  4. spleens: Wordnik
  5. spleens: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. spleens: Wiktionary
  7. spleens: Dictionary.com
  8. Spleens: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  1. Spleens: Encyclopedia

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  1. spleens: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Spleens: Medical dictionary

(Note: See spleen as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (spleen)

noun:  (anatomy, immunology) In vertebrates, including humans, a ductless vascular gland, located in the left upper abdomen near the stomach, which destroys old red blood cells, removes debris from the bloodstream, acts as a reservoir of blood, and produces lymphocytes.
noun:  (archaic, except in the set phrase "to vent one's spleen") A bad mood; spitefulness. Compare gall.
noun:  (obsolete, rare) A sudden motion or action; a fit; a freak; a whim.
noun:  (obsolete) Melancholy; hypochondriacal affections.
noun:  A fit of immoderate laughter or merriment.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To dislike.
verb:  To annoy or irritate.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To complain; to rail; to vent one's spleen.
verb:  To remove the spleen, or, by extension, to gore.
verb:  To excise or remove.
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